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112-08668 viewsViolet Town, looking north across Cowslip Street, V/Line standard gauge down goods headed by G class G 529 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 88-1259 and C class C 505 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 76-828, trailing view, broad gauge lines at left, station building behind camera, 81 class on up goods holding the mainline in crossing loop in background, searchlight signals for standard gauge trains and semaphores for broad gauge, March 1994.
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112-14668 viewsNorth Geelong yard, broad gauge V/Line G class G 534 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 88-1264 front view, grain train.
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203-28668 viewsDrillers Ridge, Wittenoom, Toyota HJ75, the road up to this little spot is actually sealed.
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215-06668 viewsPort Augusta, AN liveried 830 class locomotive 859 AE Goodwin ALCo model DL531 serial 84705 performs shunting duties in the yard.
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150508 8116668 viewsFMG Solomon Line, empty train lead by triple combination of General Electric Dash 9-44CW 004 serial 58181, EMD SD90MAC-H 916 serial 976833-22 and EMD SD70ACe 710 serial 20118693-002 power through the hills around the Bea Bea Creek area. Geodata: -22.0528200 118.7132450 .
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160128 00406668 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal Yard, rear view of Goninan rebuilt GE model CM40-8M 5641 serial 8281-06, builders no. 92-130 flanked either side by later rebuilds 5660 and 5668. Note the newer rebuilds have marker lights while 41 has none.
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103-15667 viewsWahgunyah portable station building, staff hut, 3/4 view, super phosphate shed and unloading contraption in the background.
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140517-4315667 viewsEginbah Siding area, of the Marble Bar railway, former locomotive watering stop alongside the Talga River (closed in 1951), view of the tanks and concrete stands, the line alignment can just be made out in the background. Location here.
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196-01667 viewsYandi Two loaded car side of the loadout balloon loop, BHP Iron Ore CM40-8M or Dash 8 motive power in the form of 5658 'Kakogawa' serial 8412-03 / 94-149 rebuilt by Goninan as GE model CM40-8M from ALCo M636C unit 5480 and two new Goninan built GE CM39-8 units 5630 'Zeus' serial 5831-09 / 88-079 and 5631 'Apollo' serial 5831-10 / 88-080 are the head end power with another two CM40-8M units mid-train. Train length is 240 waggons with a 120/120 split. Yandi Two ore stockpile and pedestal stacker boom tip visible in the background, the loadout operates via gravity and the train travels through a tunnel. May 1998.
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197-18667 viewsWittenoom, Colonial Mine, asbestos mining remains, view of the drivers side of Mancha battery locomotive #4 showing general arrangement.
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219-30667 viewsGoldsworthy Siding, C36-7M unit 5507 'Nimingarra' serial 4839-03 / 87-072, an original Mt Newman Mining ALCo C636 5461 to GE C36-7M rebuild carried out by Goninan, leads an empty train along the siding at Goldsworthy to cross a loaded.
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151111 9510667 viewsA loaded train behind General Electric ES44DCi units 8113 serial 59105 in the original silver livery and 8145 serial 58726 in the tiger strip Rio livery and Dash 9-44CW 9433 serial 54766 in ROBE Pilbara Iron livery runs along on the West Mainline bound for Cape Lambert viewed from Table Hill.
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170915 0712667 viewsAt the 18.2 km as part of the empty Roy Hill fuel train, TA type diesel fuel tank waggon TA 1006 built by CSR Yangtze Rolling Stock Co China with a capacity of 96000 litres. 15th September 2017. View map here.
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190911 4757667 viewsPort Hedland, Broome Rd crossing, BHP's MM 800 track recording vehicle powers south on a recording run, still wearing it's Movember 'mo' as part of a men's health campaign, the MM 800 was built by Mermec in Italy and is a ROGER 800 model, ROGER is an acronym for Rilievo Ottico Geometria Rotaia, Italian for optical rail geometry control.
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128-36666 viewsNar Nar Goon, up passenger train with Comeng 487M, pausing at platform, 4D (Double Deck Development and Demonstration), double deck suburban electric set, testing phase.
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129-1-13666 viewsLyndhurst, detail roof view of V/Line broad gauge VPCX type bogie cement waggons, shows wider and higher rectangular style grid mesh. Location is Geo Data.
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207-18666 viewsBHP General Electric built AC6000 unit 6071 serial 51063 brand new and unnamed on the loaded side of Yandi One load-out loop as a remote mid-train unit, showing roof view and the original style windscreen protectors.
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213-14666 viewsWeipa, Lorim Point workshops looking east, Comalco R 1001 loco Clyde Engineering built EMD model GT26C serial 72-752 sits at the fuel point, items of note are these units were setup to have the long hood leading, the second 'tropical roof' and the five chime horn cut into the nose. This unit is almost identical to the GT26C models of the WAGR L class. September 1995.
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194-27665 viewsYandi campsite for Henry Walker operated iron ore mine owned and managed by BHP, view from man cage during indoor cricket pitch installation .
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215-03665 viewsLong Plains, the down passenger train to Alice Springs 'The Ghan' on approach with power from an AN livered DL class DL 37 Clyde Engineering EMD model AT42C serial 88-1245.
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